A massive 460-foot-wide asteroid will speed past Earth this week. Fortunately, the “Christmas asteroid,” as many have dubbed it, will only come within 420,000 miles of our planet.

NASA has warned that the massive asteroid 2024 NX1 will skim past Earth tonight - reaching its closest point at 02:56 am GMT in the early hours of Christmas Eve.

However, the Christmas Eve asteroid will make its closest pass in December of 2106 when it will skim past Earth at a distance of just 2.11 million miles (3.4 million km).

Christmas Eve asteroid the size of a 10-floor building makes ‘close approach’ to Earth tonight By . Ben Cost. Published Dec. 23, 2024, 9:37 a.m. ET.

A CHILLING graphic shows how an asteroid the size of a football pitch could be on course to smash into Earth at Christmas time in seven years. Scientists say the enormous space rock is between 40 a… ...

Asteroid 2024 XN1, nicknamed the "Christmas Eve asteroid," will pass Earth at a speed of 14,743 mph on December 24, reaching its closest point at 02:56 am GMT.

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Christmas eve asteroid: Surprise sky visitor to skim past Earth, NASA alerts. The space rock, 2024 XN1, is roughly the size of a 10-storey building, with a diameter of 29-70 metres.

The asteroid, discovered just after Christmas and named 2024 YR4, could strike the planet in December of 2032, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies.

However, the Christmas Eve asteroid will make its closest pass in December of 2106 when it will skim past Earth at a distance of just 2.11 million miles (3.4 million km).

A CHILLING graphic shows how an asteroid the size of a football pitch could be on course to smash into Earth at Christmas time in seven years. Scientists say the enormous space rock is between 40 a… ...